The name gives it away:

UA 571-C remote gun sentry

Obviously developed in Ukraine ;-)

My friend works at Billa AT; I could ask her – but that would be cheating ;-)

What's the point of this comment!

Just last week I needed to output a formatted document, and my choices were constrained to: HTML+CSS, Markdown, docx (OOXML), or odt (ODF).

The formatting had to be manipulable in code; the first two options were unsuitable for my use case. That left OOXML and ODF.

Both docx and odt are zip files, with XML content. Any guess which one turned out to be the better choice? I was left wondering why docx even exists in the first place.

Anyone using OOXML can rightly be regarded as stupid. There are far superior formats, and we should insist on their usage.

It's a fascinating paradigm – as though it dropped here out of some future.

However, I'd never use it. Reason: having everything dynamically created JIT means there's a trade-off somewhere else; in this case, it's energy consumption. I'd rather "cache" applications (ie. have them as installable software, which has been built just once) than endlessly recreate software from scratch each time, with all the energy usage that entails.

Thanks for the great feedback. That's why there is an app store in pneuma. You can upload and download pneuma generated apps from others. Give it a try!

I don't really understand this. What was stolen?

The computer doesn't "enjoy" books – it assimilates them as data. That data isn't stored verbatim; it's used to train a system. In return, ChatGPT is made freely available, and millions of people benefit from it.

What is morally wrong about this?

My dog bit me accidentally while playing, a few times. Every time, he apologized. (That is: he stopped playing, made a characteristic sound, and licked me to make sure I was OK.)

I remember when I was a kid one of the cats we had - who at that point was very much not a kitten and blind to boot - had gotten into a tussle with some strange cat. I just reached in to the melee and grabbed our cat. He promptly bit my and - or rather he started to. Didn't even break the skin. Just immediately stopped and I swear to God if a cat could say, "Oh, I'm sorry I thought you were someone else" that's what he would have said.

I miss that dumb cat.

Was it a pit bull?

English Bull Terrier - closely related to a pit bull

A smelling pistake

Regarding the issues of banking apps: if the EU is serious about tech sovereignty, it's up to members to mandate that banks allow their apps to run on Sailfish, or other alternative operating systems. It really is as simple as that.

(But whether any EU member is capable of rising to this (very shallow) challenge... well, I'm justifiably cynical.)

I dispute your assertion: Sailfish's UI is WAY ahead of iOS and Android. It's simple, consistent, and intuitive; a complete contrast to the mess of iOS and the clunkiness of Android. As for stability, native Sailfish apps on my Xperia XA2 seldom, if ever, crash.

And, to my eyes, it simply looks better.

I won't dispute you. Maybe it evolved into more usable state, but the beginings had many problems and rough edges.

Libre Computer makes a range of SBCs and supports mainline Linux. I use their products, and I'm very happy with them.

"Most ARM single board computers depend on proprietary binary blobs to boot or ship with outdated vendor kernels that are never upstreamed and quickly abandoned. Libre Computer takes a different approach: we fund and contribute to the mainline Linux kernel and U-Boot directly, ensuring our platforms run on upstream open-source software with minimal proprietary firmware."

https://libre.computer/

Yup, seconded! Libre Computer do a great job on this front